CityFibre Holdings has announced the completion of its work to build a dark fibre optic broadband network link as part of a £270 million plan to improve infrastructure in Dundee.

As a result of the deployment, Dundee City Council's (DCC's) new headquarters have been connected to a second data centre supporting more than 200 premises, including social housing and schools.

Thanks to the new high-bandwidth network, the local authority has been able to reduce its outgoings on telecoms services and downsize its premises by adopting flexible working and hot desking, in which one desk is shared by several people on different shifts. A ratio of ten staff to every eight desks now exists across the office.

To accommodate workspaces for all of DCC's employees, the new headquarters would have needed to be 25 per cent larger, leading to unnecessary and significant cost implications at a time when pressure exists to trim budgets.

Mark Collins, chief commercial officer at CityFibre Holdings, said the internet service provider's solutions "align perfectly" with the spend-to-save initiatives put in place by many local authorities.

A dedicated point-to-point fibre broadband network removes the need for organisations to rent more and more costly bandwidth, he explained.

Mr Collins added: "What is more, our networks can easily handle even the most extreme bandwidth requirements and if additional fibre pairs are required, these can be purchased at a vastly reduced cost."

Ged Bell, head of IT at Dundee City Council, said: "CityFibre's dark fibre technology provided us with exactly the capacity requirements that we needed.

"There was no one else that could meet our needs in terms of the capacity and at a price we could afford."

As well as the Dundee project, CityFibre is working to stabilise and repair the fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure in Bournemouth that it acquired from Fibrecity Holdings in January.

It is estimated that 20,000 homes in the south coast town will be able to receive the super-fast broadband service by December. 

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